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Debian Squeeze and Wheezy amd64 images for QEMU or KVM
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This directory contains Debian Squeeze and Wheezy amd64 images for QEMU or KVM:
e00dc4703a9991732e1010fd17259fb0 debian_squeeze_amd64_standard.qcow2
4083caee7e5dfe4850b6391aaabae6f6 debian_squeeze_amd64_desktop.qcow2
ceacf158c727c1bfcea3c83ea49ddb10 debian_wheezy_amd64_standard.qcow2
092aafd91c32b8471d600d0b9c131ebe debian_wheezy_amd64_desktop.qcow2
All images are 25GiB images in QCOW2 format on which a Debian Squeeze or Wheezy
system has been installed. The standard images correspond to a "Standard system"
installation, while the desktop images correspond to a "Standard system" +
"Desktop environment" with Gnome, KDE and Xfce environments. On Wheezy the
original default desktop environment is Gnome and the default display manager is
GDM. These can not work in QEMU, as Gnome needs an accelerated graphics card,
which is not provided by QEMU. Moreover both Gnome and GDM need more than the
default 128MiB memory provided on QEMU. They have therefore been replaced
respectively by Xfce and LightDM on the Wheezy desktop image. Both Gnome and GDM
are still installed on the image, and the original default can be restored using
the following commands:
- update-alternatives --auto x-session-manager
- echo /usr/sbin/gdm3 > /etc/X11/default-display-manager
The other installation options are the following:
- Keyboard: US
- Locale: en_US
- Mirror: ftp.debian.org
- Hostname: debian-amd64
- Root password: root
- User account: user
- User password: user
To use these images, you need to install QEMU 1.1.0 (or later) or a recent KVM
version. Start QEMU or KVM with the image as argument:
- qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian_squeeze_amd64_standard.qcow2
- qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian_squeeze_amd64_desktop.qcow2
- qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian_wheezy_amd64_standard.qcow2
- qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian_wheezy_amd64_desktop.qcow2
When run on an amd64 host with hardware virtualization, and when the KVM module
is loaded and accessible to the user, it is possible to use the -enable-kvm
option to run the guest faster. By default QEMU emulates a machine with 128MiB
of RAM. The -m option increases or decreases the size of the RAM. If you don't
want to start QEMU in graphic mode, you can use the -curses option.
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